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Feb 22, 2021 · According to the team's rating system, the top-rated flat map projection is the Winkel Tripel, a map that originated in 1921, when German cartographer Oswald Winkel proposed it, and which...
Nov 29, 2022 · We may finally have a faithful flat map, however. The 2016 winner of Japan’s prestigious Good Design, designers figured out how to translate our spherical world into a rectangular box. Hajime Narukawa, a Tokyo-based architect and artist, broke the globe up into 96 regions and folded it into a tetrahedron and then a pyramid before finally ...
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Feb 15, 2021 · Using their metrics, the best previously known flat map projection was the Winkel Tripel, with a Goldberg-Gott score of 4.563. But that still had the “boundary cut” problem of splitting the Pacific Ocean and creating the illusion of great distance between Asia and Hawaii.
Feb 17, 2021 · We found that the best previously known flat map projection for the globe is the Winkel tripel used by the National Geographic Society, with an error score of 4.563. It has straight pole...
Feb 12, 2024 · The researchers reread several maps, giving scores for the existing maps when measuring distortions, performed new calculations, and arrived at the creation of the most accurate and reliable plan map ever made. The Winkel Tripel projection was the best score of all known projections.
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Apr 19, 2021 · A drawing of a curved object (such as Earth’s surface) onto a flat piece of paper is called a projection. Over the centuries, mapmakers have come up with many different types. All distort the relative size of Earth’s features. The most common map used these days is the Mercator projection.
Feb 16, 2021 · February 16, 2021. Astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, 'radically different' way to see the world. by Liz Fuller-Wright, Princeton University. How do you flatten...
